Mile Marker Supreme Hub-Stainless Steel Dana 60

I purchased these hub lockouts as a replacement for the fragile and complicated ESOF hub lockouts on my 04 Ford F250. The cost of this pair was about half of one of the replacement OEM hubs that were seized and I still had other vacuum issues above the hubs to solve. I am pretty sure the vacuum solenoid was also gone. These both installed in under an hour but I think one more split ring shim would make for a more secure install. The lockouts with the single ring installed can still move in and out in the hub housing about the width that a second ring would be. The locking/unlocking action is smooth and easy so no complaints there. If I had to mention one serious annoyance is that the height of the new lockout is about 1.5" shorter than the stock hub lockout so it is recessed in an area below the opening in the open-center Ford 4wd front hub caps. Not only does it look like garbage and encourages mud and debis trapping but I have big hands and reaching through the hub cap opening is such a chore I just removed the front hub caps entirely. This also doesn't look very good but at least function is 100% and I don't end up packing the open hub caps with mud. I would recommend these on cost and dependability alone. The recent ice storm found me without a way to make the front axle engage in 4wd with the messed up ESOF and unless you truly test it basically daily you have no data from the truck that will tell you it is not working at the front hub locks. If you can not lock the transfer case the truck will tell you, with the front hubs, you're on your own and both parts of the system have to be working to get the 4wd working. These manual locks remove the doubt one way or the other in the matter and if you get yourself in a sticky situation you need things to work.

Before I ordered this part, I used the chat feature to ask if there was anything else I needed to order. The rep checked, and said no. I got the hubs, and read the instructions, which said that some Fords needed an adapter. I called Mile Market. Yes, my 2000 F250 needed the adapter and I confirmed the part number. The Mile Marker rep commented, "those guys always get this wrong". Called Adv Auto, the agent said his info showed the adapter would not work on my truck. I told him that according to Mile Marker that was wrong and suggested he call them. He called me back and confirmed that I did need the adapter and that Adv Auto needed to revise their info base. Adv Auto, I think you need to double check your info base on this. And send me a credit for getting this corrected.